Ann Marie Shikany, Blake Hulnick

September 10, 2017

Ann Marie Shikany and Blake Berkeley Hulnick were married Sept. 9 at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Xander Berkeley, a Universal Life minister and an uncle of the groom, officiated.

The bride, 31, was until last month a senior management analyst for the Portland Bureau of Transportation in Portland, Ore. She graduated from Kenyon College and received a master's degree in international relations from Johns Hopkins.

She is the daughter of Carol A. Shikany and Alfred A. Shikany of Cincinnati. The bride’s father retired as an aerospace engineer at General Electric in Cincinnati. Her mother is a freelance visual artist in Cincinnati.

The groom, 29, was until last month a law clerk to Judge Susan P. Graber of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Portland. On Oct. 23, he is to begin working as an associate at the Washington law firm Covington & Burling. He graduated magna cum laude from Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., and received a law degree, also magna cum laude, from Georgetown.

He is the son of Pernel Berkeley of Danbury, Conn., and Donald H. Hulnick of Ridgefield, Conn. The groom’s mother is an artist who makes abstract paintings on canvas and on wooden sculptures. His father is a radiologist with Danbury Radiological Associates, a private practice based in Connecticut. The groom is the stepson of Nancy Moore Hulnick.